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In Rome: Total War, Equites (Roman basic cavalry unit) carry shields and spears.

This is not only an in game-feature, there is plenty of art of Roman cavalrymen with a shield and a spear, possibly a Doru or a hasta (2-2.3 meters long). There is also art of them carrying Lances.

And I read some accounts in the High Middle Ages of Normans carrying Lance and a spear into combat (redundant...).

What's the use of the one-handed spear for cavalrymen? It's long enough to pike into the enemy in a charge... barely. A lance seems obviously more suited to the charge. A one-handed one allows the free hand to quickly use a shield you strapped to your back I suppose (or start the battle with it) but it seems better to use the lance because it's more likely to disrupt the enemy and render his formation disorganized than the one-handed spear. The shield isn't much protection from arrows (if your mount is hit, you're out of combat and almost as ineffective as if you were knocked out) and in the melee it seems more valuable to have rendered the enemy disorganized (with the lance) than merely poke the frontline guy and have a shield to protect you in the ensuing melee (shield and spear)
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